Re: How to make *real* random bits.

[Dan Moschuk]

| Indeed, Poul's idea has massive geek potential.
| 
| However, for the geek impaired, there is always the 82802 Random
| Number Generator which is included on newer Intel chipsets.  It may
| not be the holy grail of randomness, but nearly every PC will have
| one, and I think it'd be good if FreeBSD could at least use it to
| gather entropy.

I already have a driver for this chip.  It just needs to be ported to markm's
work, and perhaps beaten into not using pmap_mapdev().

-Dan
-- 
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
                -- Oscar Wilde


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